THE AGRA TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 182, 19 December 1912, Page 5

THE AGRA TRAGEDY.

t A FURTHER CHARGE. A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Calcutta, December 17. At Agra the trial of Dr. Clark and Mrs. Fulham for the murder of Mr. Fulham has begun. The prosecution stated that the woman "wrote daily reports informing Clark of the effect of the poison on Fulham. In one report she stated: "It will take a hundred years to kill him." s 'Another letter informed Clark that her husband suspected her of intimacy with ' him, and threatened that he would shoot her and then commit suicide. Again •he wrote that her husband was very ill, with symptoms of cholera, and she added, "they all blame the Masonic dinner, but you and I Jknow. I cannot bear to see his sufferings." She later wrote: "A powder is hard to administer, and my husband will not take food prepared by me." pn July 25 she determined to administer a liquid, as hof husband was going to some sports, "when he will have a touch of sun, after which it will be convenient to finish up tne dreadful business. Four days later she wrote: "It is a great disappointment. Evidently it is God's will to spare my husband's life. Had I foreseen the trouble it would be, I would never have attempted my poor husband's life." After the failure at Meerut she wrote: "We will get another opprtunity at Agra, where Fulham is going." When Fulham died at Agra on October 10 Clark certified that his death was from paralysis. Received 19, 12.5 a.m. Agra, December 18. ' After her husband's death, one of Mrs. Fulham's letters to C'lark remarked on how (3 od worked out tilings in the most beautiful manner to, bring two loving hearts together. Fulham's ten-year-old daughter gave evidence that her father died. He told her he was going,-and added "God bless you." Witness saw Clark put a white • power in water charged with a glass needle. He seemed to push the needle near her father's heart, arm and shoulder. She heard a funny gurgling, and then her father died. Clarke returned to the diningroom and said to her mother, "Gone.''